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Gamingeek Weekly: News Posting volunteer discussion

Gamingeek Weekly: News Posting volunteer discussion

Let me know what you think of this before I start working out exact times people. We only have two europeans so on one day you are going to have a bit of a gap.

Okay PROVISIONALLY I think I will do Monday and Thurday mornings, with Dvader doing Monday and Thursday evenings

Tuesday morning for Iga, Tuesday evening for HiResDes

Wednesday all day for Ravenprose given his availibility maybe I will do no more than 4 morning updates to fill the gap.

Friday morning for Iga, evening for HiResDes.

Weekends for Steel and Rag.

I'm trying to space things out so we get good coverage for both regions when others a sleeping etc with world time zones. NOTE: When I say evening and morning I am going by GMT. I have looked at your time zones and availibility via that chart, so don't worry it will fall within the times you specified.

If this is okay I will go ahead and schedule the times, so let me know.

A Schedule needs to be discussed.

Firstly, for those that are willing to post news on the weekly blog, I need to know if you are able to post either FULL DAYS, HALF DAYS, or WEEKEND updates

It would be helpful to have people willing to do full days, so far I have Dvader, Iga and HiResDes provisionally down for that. Note to SteelAttack, no weekday is traditionally slow, only weekends.

We could have two people doings the updates for one day or one person doing a full days updates. Weekend updates are easy. BTW I wanted to know what Steel was talking about by round-ups etc?

TIME ZONESThis is the big problem as far as I am concerned. It's going to be a bitch organising a schedule taking into consideration that we live all over the world. So please check the world clock:

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Note to GG:

Your ASSs traditionally slow. Unless there is wang involved. :P
I can share one weekday, I am a bit less troubled on Fridays, but could be any day. Let's wait for Rag to show up here.
I wanted to do a little editorial discussing the high points of the week, news wise. I mean, this week's round up would be centered on the shitstorm Denis Dyack let loose at GAF, and its implications on the relationship between developers/forumers, while commenting here and there on other worthwhile news bits.

Oh and Im -5 hrs GMT.

Weekend Editorial?

You couldn't put that in the updates unless you wrote it somewhere else and linked to it. Otherwise Yo would have to create an editorial space on the page. Unless you just want to stuff it in the comments? What times are you generally good to post from and to Steel?

I could stuff it in the comments, maybe.

I wouldn't want to host it anywhere else. If it's too much trouble we could can that idea for later times.

I could post a bit from 13:00 to 15:00 GMT, again from 21:00 to 00:00 GMT, and maybe a bit at night at home, around 03:00 or 04:00 GMT. The first two timeframes would involve me sneak posting from work, so it would be an on-and-off jumpy schedule.

So Dvader, Steel and HiRes are all 5 hrs behind me?

It's 10:00 am here and so 05:00 am everywhere else. Wonder where Iga is and what time it is where he is? Isn't Iga from Holland? I really want to cut myself back to 1 full day a week. But with the option of adding stuff daily if for example you guys aren't even out of bed till my afternoons.

Iga could help there, maybe doing a couple of mornings and having you guys updating whilst we are asleep.

So we're waiting on Rag and Ravenprose and Iga? I can't remember who else.

Yodariquo, I was wondering whether you could put in a tick box on the writeGGweekly page which was either Nintendo or Microsoft or Sony or PC or multiformat? Then I don't know how you feel about this, but I was thinking either shaded colour in each box where the update was in the appropiate colour i.e red for nintendo, blue for playstation, grey for PC and green for Xbox, blank for multiformat.

Or rather than a shaded box, having the writing in those colours? What do you think?

Yes, a morning slave willing to do my bidding.

I'm not saying that people have to be online ALL the freaking time during the period, just have a reasonable period or periods where they can update. It can take anywhere between 20 minutes and 40 to put together a bunch of links. And you can check back later in the day for new stories.

Looking at the times so far, assuming that Raven and Rag are on similar time zones to Dvader, steel and Hires. It looks like we could have some early morning downtime where none of us are awake. That's cool.

I'm not going to ask anyone to post past 9pm, although if you want to, you can. The schedule is looking okay from my complicated table so far. Having a fellow european is going to help to get those updates up whilst north and south america are sleeping. And of course, while we sleep those regions can cover the rest.

So far I have Steel down for a HALF day Mon-Fri or the weekend updates. Is that one HALF day a week or more than one?

Dvader for FULL days mon-fri? What times in general can you post to and from? Can you start from a morning-ish miami time and go till when roughly? Again I don't mean that you have to suture your eyelids constantly to the computer, just have some periods where you can update in chunks.

HiRes for full days mon-fri. This is very helpful thanks guys. Again, YOUR time, roughly from and to times can you cover?

Iga, you can do full days mon-fri? But also it might be useful to do say two half day mornings?

Schedule

I can do full days easily. I always study behind my computer, so I have Internet on anyways. The best days would be Tuesday and Thursday, because I am planning to train with friends the other days, but I can do those days (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) also, but there will be a gap between 10:00 and 13:00 hours!

Site seems down

Whenever I try it. Bizaare. Edge that account suspension thing was the host account so Yodariquos free hosting account was suspended because of a CPU level spike. Now it just plain doesn't seem to be working.

GGWeekly still not working

The front page of insert coin is there, but when I click on the GGWeekly tab I get this:

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Provisional posting days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let me know what you think of this before I start working out exact times people. We only have two europeans so on one day you are going to have a bit of a gap.

Okay PROVISIONALLY I think I will do Monday and Thurday mornings, with Dvader doing Monday and Thursday evenings

Tuesday morning for Iga, Tuesday evening for HiResDes

Wednesday all day for Ravenprose given his availibility maybe I will do no more than 4 morning updates to fill the gap.

Friday morning for Iga, evening for HiResDes.

Weekends for Steel and Rag.

I'm trying to space things out so we get good coverage for both regions when others a sleeping etc with world time zones. NOTE: When I say evening and morning I am going by GMT. I have looked at your time zones and availibility via that chart, so don't worry it will fall within the times you specified.

If this is okay I will go ahead and schedule the times, so let me know.

Iga change?

Well

Wednesday we have the exactly the same problem. Perhaps
I can do news the very early morning aroound 8:00 hours till 10:00 and than go training until around 13:00 hours and do the news after that. There will be a hole of 3 hours but it should not matter much, right?

That should be fine Iga

You should be able to do a whole load of updates in half an hour in the morning then catch up a few later. So fridays okay with that arrangement? I still need HIRESDES AND RAG to give me a heads up on these times/plans